Game apparatus.



A. W. NEWCOMBE,

GAME APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED SEPT-24, 1911.

Patented Mar; 12,1918.

tr s'ra'rs GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.-

Patented Mar. 12, 1918.

Application filed September 24, 1917. Serial No. 192,854.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED W. NEW- COMBE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Revere, county of Suffolk, Commonwealth ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in GameApparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to game apparatus, and has for its object toprovide a simple, inexpensive and entertaining game, and game apparatuswhich while involvingsome little skill and dexterity to play well 1s yetsufficiently easy to play as to constltute an attractive and interestingform of amusement especially for children.

This object is secured in the game of the present invention, the natureand manner of playing of which, together with a form of game apparatuswhich has been found satisfactory in use and well adapted to therequirements of manufacture, is described in the annexed specification,illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly defined inthe appended claims. Throughout the specification and drawings likereference characters are correspondingly employed, and in the drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevation of game apparatus in accordance with myinvention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view thereof and illustrating the manner ofplaying, and

Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views of parts of the supporting standard.

My game, broadly, involves the bouncing of a resilient ball 1 ofsuitable size through a slightly larger opening in a target 2 which maybe a ring or other suitably shaped member, conveniently supported at anyappropriate distance from the ground, as by a supporting standard. Forconvenience of packing and shipment, the standard may be sectional, andas here shown consists of a plurality of rods 3, a supporting base 4:,and the proper number of couplings 5. The rods 3 may be solid ortubular, as desired, and the base 4 may be in the form of a pair ofcrossed members suitably dove the ring 2 to be varied, both as todistance 7 from the ground and as to angularity with relation to theplayers.

The object of the game is to bounce the ball 1 through the ring 2, theplayer or players standing at any arbitrarily fixed gisltiance from thering before delivering the Various modification in the form andconstruction of my device may obviously be resorted to if within thelimits of the appended claims.

What I therefore claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. Game apparatus comprising a resilient ball, a ring through which theball is adapted to be projected, and a support for said ring adapted toposition the ring an appropriate distance from the ground and atvariable angles with relation to the vertical.

2. Game apparatus, comprising a resilient ball, a target in the form ofa ring having an opening therethrough of greater diameter than that ofthe ball and through which the ball is adapted to be bounced, and asectional support for the target adapted to position the target at anappropriate distance from the ground and at variable angles withrelation to the vertical.

3. Game apparatus, comprising a resilient ball, a ring through which theball is adapt-- ed to be bounced, and a sectional standard to supportthering at variable distances from the ground and at variable angles withrespect to the vertical and consisting of a base, a plurality ofsuperposed rods and coupling members for detachably uniting said rods.

4. Game apparatus, comprising a resilient ball a ring through which theball is adapted to 'fit the uppermost rod of said series of ed to bebounced, and a sectional standard to rods. 10 support the ring atvariable distances from In testimony whereof I afiix my signature theground and at'variable angles with rein presence of tWo Witnesses.

5 spect to the vertical and consisting of a base, ALFRED W. NEWCOMBE.

a plurality of superposed rods and coupling Witnesses: members fordetachably uniting said rods, MARY P. WOTHERSPOON, said ring having adepending nipple adapt- AGNES V. OCONNELL.

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